Modern, headless web builds that outperform legacy CMS sites on speed, security and SEO.
React/Next.js builds for businesses that need app-like speed, rock-solid security and top search performance.
Next.js lets us ship websites that are pre-rendered, globally cached and nearly impossible to hack — while still giving your team a friendly CMS (headless WordPress, Sanity, Contentful or MDX) to edit content.
We've migrated sites from Concrete5, PHP and heavyweight WordPress themes to Next.js, preserving rankings with full redirect maps and improving Core Web Vitals in the process. This very website is built on Next.js.
Why The Dev Studio
- 15+ years delivering for clients in the UK, Australia, Europe and North America.
- In-house designers, developers and content producers — nothing outsourced.
- Fixed prices, clear timelines and a single accountable lead.
- Evening and weekend cover for urgent issues.
Next.js & Headless Development: what you get.
Marketing sites
Statically generated pages with per-route metadata, OG images, sitemaps and JSON-LD.
Headless CMS
WordPress (REST/GraphQL), Sanity, Contentful or Git-based MDX — whichever fits your editors.
Web apps & portals
Authenticated dashboards, client portals, calculators and internal tools built with React Server Components.
Migrations
URL inventory by crawling the live site, 301 maps, content export and launch with zero ranking loss.
Performance engineering
Image/CDN strategy, font loading, bundle analysis and real-user monitoring.
Hosting & DevOps
Vercel, Cloudflare or your own VPS with CI/CD, previews for every change and monitoring.
Recent projects
Next.js & Headless Development FAQs
Next.js pages are pre-built and served from a global CDN, so they load faster, score higher on Core Web Vitals and have a far smaller attack surface than a plugin-heavy WordPress install. You can still keep WordPress as a headless CMS if your team likes its editor.